Jeff Rivera

Query Letters That Work: Grab Them with the First Sentence

Guest post by Jeff Rivera Agents are so busy nowadays they won’t even give a query letter an entire paragraph to grab them. If you’ve passed the first test, what I like to call the scan test (meaning it looks professional at first glance), then you’ll be lucky to go on to the next test: […]

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Jeff Rivera: Create a Book Trailer on a Shoestring

Had I known my book sales would skyrocket from creating a book trailer of my novel, I would have done it a long time ago. We live in a visual multimedia world and it is important to get with the times. People’s attention spans seem to have shortened and since we live in what I […]

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Jeff Rivera on Career Success

Guest Post by Jeff Rivera The following is taken from a Facebook post that Jeff Rivera posted today. I’ve discovered something interesting: If you want career success, before you buy another book, enroll in another seminar, or pay for another webinar, start with the basics: Return calls & emails in a timely manner (meaning, within […]

Jeff Rivera on How to Interest a Publisher

Guest Post by Jeff Rivera As someone who scouts for a number of great literary agents, editors, producers and publishers in the book, film and television industries, my greatest advice to aspiring writers who want to be discovered is the following: The BEST query letter an aspiring writer could ever have nowadays is to sell […]